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• When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

  Beah Richards

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Destiny, Order

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• I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

  Ratan Tata

  Successful, Twists, Clean

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• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

  Amy Waldman

  Character, Trying, Novelists

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• The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Personality

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• The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Play, Wave

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Shoes, Space

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• Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Autumn, Lakes

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• Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  India, Population, World

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• It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.

  David Weber

  Real, Boys, Moon

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• I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Age, Scratches

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  "Patricia Arquette Just Made a Rally Cry for Women at the Oscars" by Justine Harman, Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. February 23, 2015.

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• The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Down And, And Love

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.107, Advaita Ashrama

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• Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

  Steven Pinker

  Hands, Hot, Use

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• Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Stars, Mirrors, Light

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage

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• On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life Changing, Friendly, Different

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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• Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Black, Earth, Way

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• Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

  Faith Prince

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

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• There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

  Bill Viola

  World, Sides, Another World

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• The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

  James Hansen

  Fossils, Facts, Climate

  "Global warming activist, former NASA scientist James Hansen speaks out before World Affairs Council of Oregon appearance". Interview with Scott Learn, www.oregonlive.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.

  Fabio Novembre

  Reality, Glasses, Names

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• I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Sugar, Lips, Sometimes

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• Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

  E. M. Forster

  Creativity, Two, Perfect

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• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Lakes, Clouds, Sky

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